Description
The City of Salem is seeking proposals from qualified Proposers for providing subsurface utility exploration services on a continuing services basis. The successful Proposer(s) shall provide subsurface utility exploration to determine the horizontal and vertical location of underground utilities. The utilities shall be premarked pursuant to ORS 952.001. The successful Proposer(s) shall provide all necessary traffic control. The potholing shall be done with a water jet/vacuum excavation method to minimize damage to the utility. The pothole shall be backfilled with native material or controlled density backfill as specified for each individual project. Surface restoration in paved areas shall be permanent cold mix or hot mix asphalt concrete to the depth specified. Surface restoration in non-paved areas shall match the pre-existing conditions.
• The City reserves the right to select either the primary or alternate Consultant of Record (COR) for a project assignment.
• The primary COR agrees to provide services for all projects offered by the City unless multiple projects exceed the primary COR’s ability to complete the work within the required time frames.
• The City reserves the right to terminate the contract with the primary COR or alternate COR if, after multiple refusals of projects by the COR(s), the City determines at its sole discretion that the intent of the process is not being served.
• The maximum annual and individual project dollar limits are $75,000.00 and $25,000.00 respectively.
• The City will not pay for any costs incurred by proposer in responding to this RFP to include costs to the proposer to conduct interviews and presentations.